The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-10
INTERNAL REVENUE.
Commissioner Miller's Report
on the Subject.
SOME TIMELY SUGGESTIONS.
The Enormous Traffic In Spirits Car
ried on by the NatiOn-6sn.
sral News.
Internal Revenue.

enue, submitted his annual report to
ihe Secretary of the Treasury to day.
TIE total receipts, from all sources of
internal revenue, tor the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1887, were Sis, S29, 523,
as compared with $116, 902, 1863 for the
year 1886, SIP, 421 ,121 for the year 1885,
$I2i 800, 23l for the year 1884, $144, $685.
344, for the year 1883 and $146, 523 ,273 for
the year 1882. It is estimated that
$120, 900 will be collected from var
ious sources of the internal revenue
during the current fiscal year,
provided no changes are
made IN the rates of taxation
now imposed by the Internal Revenue
law. The total cost of collection for
the past fiscal year, including the
salaries Of officers, etc., was 81 .065, l49,
bsing about three-fourths per INT. OF
the amount collected. The cost during
The previous fiscal year, was about
three-siXths per cent. of the collections.
The estimated expenses for the next
fiscal year amount to 81, lbs, $50. An
additional head of division and twn
messengers are asked for, to execute
the provisions of the oIeomargarine law.
| The general condition of the service is
| reported to be good. The reduction Of
the number of Internal Revenue dis
tricts by the executive order OF Nav
last, very considerably lessened the
cost of collecting the Internal Revenue
taxes and has not in any manner
been detrimental to the interest
Of the tax payers, so far as he has
been informed. Commissioner Miller
suggests that the question whether
the United States has now any author
ity for the collection of the direct tax
remaining unpaid be taken into con-
sideratiOn. If it is held that the tax
can be collected, proper steps. he says,
sAould be taken to collect it. unless
there is some probability of legislative
action authorizing further suspension.
Nine hundred and siXty-nine grain
distilleries and 1926 fruit distilleries
were operated, an increase of nineteen
| in the former and a decrease of ,l49 in
the after. The increase in the grair
listilleries was among the small ones,
while there was a decrease in the large
ones. Tho commissioner renews his
recommendation OF last year, in regard
| TO the taxation Of fractional parts of a
gallon OF distilled spirits. He also
urges legisia!i III authorizing the .es-
t4blishment OF special bonded
warehouses for the storage of brandy
maze from apples Or peaches, or from
| any fruit whose diSlillation may be
authorized under the rules and regu-
lations which govern the distiilsLion OF
the fruits above named tQgetner with
the necessary changes inStha laws to
guard against fraud. the great falling
off in the assessment OF overdue taxes
on distilled spirits, the report says, is
due to the fact that while 81 the be-
ginning of the fiscal year 1886 there
we're 1882, 11S gallons OF spirits in the
distillery warehouses, the tax on which
would become due during the year
under the terms OF the warehousing
bonds, there were only 10,701 1925 gal
Ions of such spirits in the distillery
warehouses at the beginning of the
year 1887. AS there were II .788 POI gal
Ions of such spirits in bond at the be-
ginning of the present fiscal year, some
increase in assessments of this Charac-
ter may be expected during the year,
The quantity of spirits produced and
deposited in the distillery warehouses
curing the last fiscal year, compared
with 1856, distributed among the differ |
ent kinds known TO the trade, was as |
follows: Increase in the production of |
rum, 81 I'll gallons; gin, go, AS gallons; |
high wines 14,575 gallons; pure neutral |
I
increase, 1,230, 746. The decrease ~ the |
production of Bourbon whisky was
2.303 795 gallons; rye whisky, 528, 600
gallons; alcohol. 9l0, S42 gallons. Total |
decrease, 3 743 527 gallons; a net de-
crease of 5i2 78l gallons. The guam
tity of spirits within and tax paid from
the diStiiiery warehouses during the
past fiscal year, compared with 1876.
was decrease in the withdrawal of
Bourbon whisky of 1857, 70i gallons;
rye whisky, 40 299 gallons; miscellsne-
Gus; PSI, l04 gallons. Total decrease,
4,649 707 gallons. The increase in the
withdrawal of alcohol, 955, eli gallons;
rum, 104 ,629 gallo rs; gin, $3.50 gal
Ions; high wines, LOCAL; pure neutral
or Cologne spirita, COG, 2G5,
1.-THE quantity, 2,216,e45 gallons. as
slated by the chief Of the bureau of
statistics. of domestic spirits exported, /
and reimported during the year upon
payment OF customs duty, equal to the
Internal Revenue be added, the
quantity virtually withdrawn from the
distllierv warehouses. during the wear
ended June 80, 1887, is foun 10 be
So ,399 ,94S gallons, or 1,664 ,4o2 gallons
less than during the year 1886, includ-
ing 967 500 gallons reimpOrted and tax
p i'd curlng that year. On the subject
Ot reIu ported spirits, the Commissioner
recommends, first, that section $500 of
the Revised Statutes he so amended as
ro exclude" as an article subject TO
customs duty, all dome, tic spirits
returned to this country Ito
provide for the collection of internal
revenue due on such spirits, as shown
Dy the marks and brands on the
package at the time of the removal of
spirit from the distillery warehouse,
)r, if this is deemed inadyls-
able. second, that the section be
amended so as to provide for
he collection OF interest on the duty
imposed on reimported spirits, / be
from the date Of the with
travail of the spirits from the ware
house, or in case spirits were exported, :
WITH the benefit of drawback interest 10
tate from the payment of the drawback,
Revelation.
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